Manufacture of cloth of various kinds by the employment of wool and silk obtained by



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN DANIELS, OF WOODSTOCK, VERMONT.

MANUFACTURE OF CLOTH OF VARIOUS KINDS BY THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOOL AND SILK OBTAINED BY REDUCING WORN-OUT WOOLEN AND SILK GOODS INTO THE FIBROUS STATE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1,809, dated October 8, 1840.

' others ofa similar character-and into cloths in which the warp consists of cotton, silk, or other material, and the filling, in whole or in part, of wool, or of cloths in which the cotton,

silk, and wool are mixed together, and are carded and spun in their combined state, all of which I have successively essayed. The wool so remanufactured I obtain by taking worn-out woolen goods of various kinds, and also wornout silks, and reducing them to their original fibrous state by means of machinery which I have invented for that purpose, (and for which I have made application for Letters Pa'entsimultaneonsly with the present application,) or reduced by means ot'auy other machinery which will produce said fibers of wool in a state fit for remanufacturing into yarn and cloth. I sometimes take such restored wool and card,

spin, and weave it alone, or I mix it with fresh wool in the proportion of at least one-sixth part of the restored wool to five-sixths of the fresh wool, and I in either case thereby obtain yarn or cloth equal in all respects to that which can be obtained from entire fresh or new wool ol the same degree oftineness-a result not heretofore attained, and by which I am enabled to produce such cloth and sell it at a price considerably lower than that of cloth consisting entirely of fresh or new wool, as it is a'fact which I have established by full experience that the reproduced fibers of wool may be obtained from the worn-out woolen goods, pound for pound, at a very trifling cost.

What I claim as myinvention or discovery, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The employment of wool and of silk obtained by the reducing into the fibrous state of wornout woolen or silk goods, so as to produce new fabrics by the operations ofspinning" and weaving equal in all respects to those obtained from new or fresh wool, said reproduced fiber to be used either alone or in a proportion to that of the fresh wool of not less than one-sixth part. v In testimony whereof Ihereuntosetmyhand this 11th day of July, 1840.

REUBEN DANIELS.

Witnesses:

THos. P. J oN-Es, W. THOMPSON. 

